Category: Archive
300 picture books – the picture version
Lifetimes Clap and sing I love bedtime Otto the book bear Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs Hedgehugs The house rabbit The jelly that wouldn’t wobble Again We love you Hugless Douglas Stone Age boy Last week we made 75 (or 74) which makes us somewhere around 85. Or 6. Might break 100 next week!
Uncle Ben's Speedy Biryani Challenge
Thanks to Uncle Ben’s Speedy Biryani Challenge we spiced up our menu one day last week and branched out into some indian cookery. The biryani *was* pretty speedy, though it was to be said that I slowed down the rest of the meal planning by deciding I’d make saag paneer, including paneer from scratch 😉…
Sunday sky
As I’ve never seen it before. Anyone care to guess how the effect is achieved? (And no, it’s not post processed.)
The 10,000 hour expert – picture books
I’m reading a lot of picture books at the moment. I’ve started thinking about drawing. I’m inspired by things like The Nowhere Box(Amazon link) which is very simplistic in terms of drawing, but every picture is full of life. You can still see the sketch lines, and the colour is roughly added, but that adds…
A tale of two days.
On Monday, Smallest had a screen ban. We won’t go into the details of why. As a result, she did craft. And maths – actual hands on maths with the Plastic Base Ten blocks. We did a Montessori style three period lesson to introduce the unit, ten, hundred terminology – she already knows it really,…
Friday fun
Treating myself to a home made mocha, with *all* the trimmings. Fabulous book post. All the way from the states. I haven’t read any Victoria Schwab. This seems like a good time to start.
The Ship by Antonia Honeywell
The Ship This is a book I’d been looking forward to reading from the first moment I heard of it on twitter. And I wasn’t disappointed. WELCOME TO LONDON BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT Oxford Street burned for three weeks. The British Museum is occupied by ragtag survivors. The Regent’s Park camps have been…
Sunday (snippets)
Yes yes, I know we already did this. But Sunday. A day of battling with the washing machine as it didn’t want to spin. Ended up taking the washing round to the laundrette to dry. At least I got a walk in the sun. And some time with the A to Z of you and…
